Rapports

Australia is to give 780-thousand dollars* in aid to help repatriate Rwandan refugees from Zaire. Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says the condition of up to 100-thousand refugees around Kisangani in Zaire has become desperate, with as many as 120-people…

GENERAL African heads of state have postponed a summit on the political situation in Burundi and the impact of regionally imposed economic sanctions against the country. Tanzanian officials told reporters that the meeting, originally scheduled for April 8 in Arusha, had…

Peter Masebu PANA Staff Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's Popular Defence Forces, a militia of volunteers set up by government to help the regular army fight the Sudan People's Liberation Army, has recaptured an important mid-western location in the…

*97040902.AAF TEXT: 'FORCED REGROUPMENT' IN BURUNDI 'HIGHLY OBJECTIONABLE' (State Department's Burns issues statement) (490) WASHINGTON -- "The United States finds Major Pierre Buyoya's self-declared Interim Government's policy of forced regroupment" in Burundi "to be highly objectionable," the U.S. State Department announced April 8. In…

Over 100,000 detainees registered by the ICRC The ICRC's activities in Rwanda continued gradually to return to normal during the past few weeks. Delegates restarted their visits to between one and two thirds of communal lock-ups in all prefectures except…

AI INDEX: AFR/47/13/97 News Service: 56/97 RWANDA: GRAVE DOUBTS ABOUT THE FAIRNESS OF THE FIRST TRIALS The first trials of people charged with genocide and other crimes against humanity in Rwanda have been largely unfair -- with most prosecutors and judges having…

1. OVERVIEW Following dry weather in several parts of the country during the secondary season (October-December), and in view of persistent civil strife in the northern districts which has resulted in displacement of a large number of…

Co-ordinating Office Action by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and…

The Disaster Heavy rains and subsequently severe floods have been affecting Mozambique for over a month. In several districts of four provinces (Tete, Sofala, Zambezia and Manica) along the Zambezi river people have been forced to seek refuge in safer…

(Excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Uganda C) Ethiopia D) Somalia E) Democratic People's Republic of Korea F) Albania From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet…